Stand for hotel-registers.



No. 648,906. Ptented May I, |900.

' C. P. CLINE.

STAND FUR HTEL REGISTEBS.

(Appumion med Jan; 1s`, 1900.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES I. CLINE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES W. FAIRRINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

STAND FOR HOTEL-REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,906, dated May 1, 1900. Application iiled January 13; 1900'. Serial No. 1,284'. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, CHARLES P. CLINE, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stands for Hotel-Registers, of which the fol; lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to rotatable stands adapted to rest and swivel on the clerks counter, so as to present the register to guests standing outside the counter or to the clerk behind the counter; and one of the objects of the improvements is to provide such a stand with means for holding a roll of paper to be unrolled for making the register-leaves, in conjunction with means for supporting an unrolled portion of the paper in position for writing the guests names thereon, and means for releasing the paper and cutting oi separate sheets or leaves therefrom as the record is made in form to be filed in a book or temporary binder.

Another obj ect is to provide the stand with separate compartments for holding the roll of paper and the register-book or temporary binder, for holding letters for the mail, for holding writing-paper and envelops, and for holdinga call-slate, the several compartments being compactly arranged and provided with covers or doors, so as to be conveniently accessible and to constitute the stand a convenient and practically-usable article upon the hotel-counter. Y

A further object is to provide the doors of the top of the stand with means for holding display-cards for a business directory in conjunction with the register.

I attain these objects in the stand constructed as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is a top perspective view of a stan embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail showing a fragment of a side elevation, the dot-ted lines showing portions of the interior construction. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4C is a detail showing in plan view a fragment of the vbase piece containing the swivelpin. Fig. 5 is a detail showing a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. l. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on the line 6 6 of Fig. l. Fig. '7 is a detail showing a plan of the call-slate.

with the base and projecting above its upper surface, so as to carry the weight of the box; A molding A skirts the lower margin of the box, so as to cover the base-piece, but clear the top of the counter.

The horizontal dimensions of the box are about two feet by two feet, the bottom being.

level andthe top slanting from about seven inches high at one side gradually to a height of about four inches at the opposite side. The box is centrally divided by a partition C, extended from the lower side to the higher side, and the space on one side of this partition is transversely divided into three compartments by two cross-partitions C. (Shown by dotted lines.) To the right-hand side of partition C, when looking at the stand in the position shown in Fig. l, are attached brackets c, preferably provided with slots c and spring catches c2 lfor detachably securing and supporting a rod or' shaft D, so that it can rotate in the slots. The paper-roll D is carried by said rod? There is a large rectangular opening E E in the top ofthe box to the right of partition C, which is slightly less in longitudinal and lateral dimensions than the size of the register-leaf, and the edge of this opening. around three of its sides is provided with a groove e,` adapted to receive the edges of a sliding board E', which is of the proper dimensions to close said opening. This groove is best made by forming a rabbet along thel edge of the top board of the box and partition C- around three sides of the vopening and covering the rabbet bya metal strip e. At the outer edge of the sliding board the side of the box is recessed along the edge and covered by the strip e2 to form an open slot at e3, through which the sliding board can be drawn out, as shown by the dotted lines at e4, Fig. 1. The

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outer side of the side board and under side of the sliding board are recessed, as shown at (l, Fig. 5, to afford ahold on the slidingboard for drawing it out, and a spring-latch CZ', adapted to engage the under side of the sliding board, keeps it normally in place when shoved in. The width of the groove around the edge of the opening E E and of the slot at e3 is sufticient to take in the edge of a layer of paper from the roll D and also a layer of blotting-paper placed on or secured to the top of the sliding board to afford a yielding surface under the pen When Writing on a sheet resting thereon, so that in operation a layer a of the paper drawn from therollA will pass over the opening E E, with its edges in the corresponding grooves and cover the groove along the top of partition C, the outer edge of the paper coming under the strip e2. When the paper is so drawn out, the sliding board on being shoved in Will raise the paper up, With its edges in the groove e and slot c3 against the under side of the strips e' c2 and press it into the groove along the top of the partition C, thus holdingthe paper by its edges in said grooves and slot securely on the top of the sliding board or its blottercover for Writin g on. Vhen the page is Written full, the sliding board can be drawn out with the page which cause the paper to be advanced f/rom the roll sufficient for the next page. With the paper in this position the sliding board is shoved in again, leaving the first page project out through the slot at e3 and the adj acentpaper held up against the under side of the strip e2. Then the page thus projecting can be drawn over the outer edge of the strip e2 and be thereby cut off along said edge, which is beveled down to a cutting edge for this purpose. The leaves when cut off are filed in a register book or binder F, Which is kept in that compartment of the box to the right of partition C and under theA sliding board. This compartment is accessible through a door F at the side of the box for putt-ing in and taking out the book. The paper-roll is putin through the opening E E. The compartment G on the left of partition C is for letters for the mail. Itis provided with a letter-slot g in the side of the box and is accessible through a door H in the side of the box. The compartment G for Writing-paper and the compartment G2 for envelops are open at the top and have covers l, hinged to the partition C. :These covers preferably comprise a board 't' on the under side, a sash 1," around three sides, leaving one side open, metal strips i2, secured to the sash and extended all around the cover, and a glass plate 3, held by the strips A skeleton pad J, adapted to hold business-cards, may be slipped in between the board 'L' and the glass plate at the open side J' of the sash, and be thereby held for display under the protection of the glass plate. The door H extends along nearly the Whole length of the higher side of the box A and is hinged at the bottom edge, so as to turn down when the catch h at the upper edge is released. On its inner side it is provided With two flanged ribs h', arranged parallel to one ano'ther with the flanges projecting toward one another.

K is a call-slate Which is adapted to slide between the ribs with its opposite edges under the anges thereof, so as to` be held in place on the door'or to be taken out when desired. as indicated in Fig. 7, and marked along the margin at one side With characters designating thevtimes iixed for calling persons,

The call-slate is ruled permanently,

so that by Writing on the slate, in the ruled removed from its place on the door for Writing on or to be carried by the one making the round of roo ms for Waking or calling persons.

L designates an ink-Well.

The roll of paper may be ruled, as indicated by the vertical and transverse lines shown in Fig. 1, or unruled paper may be used with like ruled lines placed on the sliding board under the paper, so as to be seen through the paper, as in the ordinary Way 'of Writing on unruled paper.

1. A hotel-register stand comprising a box rotatably mounted on a support and provided with a page-opening in its top and a groove in the edges of the opening terminating in a slot through one side of the box in the same plane with the groove, a shaft rotatably supported in the box at the side of the page-openf ing opposite from the slot, and a sliding board adapted to work in the slot and groove to close the page-opening and being provided with a dat top, arranged slightly below the upper Walls of the slot and groove and extending into the slot and groove, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. A hotel-register stand comprising a box havin ga level bottom and slanting top rotatably mounted on a support and provided with a page-opening in its top and a groove in the IIO edges of the opening terminating in a slot 3. A hotel-register stand comprising a box having a level bottom and slanting top rotatably mounted on a support and provided with a page-opening in its top'and a groove in the edges of the opening terminating in a slot through one side of the box, a shaft ro- 648,966 I g g tatabiy supported in the box at the side of nent rulings as shown and adapted to slide the page-opening opposite from the slot, a between the iizmgedribs subsbantially as and sliding board adapted to Work inthe slot and for the purposes specified.

groove, a, door in the side of the box under CHARLES P. CLINE. the sliding board, a doorI in the rear of the XVitnesses: box provided with parallel flanged ribs on its ANNIE M. ADAMS,

interior sido, and :L call-slate having perma- CHARLES WV. FAIRRINGTON. 

